Rijksmuseum

Avondjapon

Date

c. 1922 - c. 1924

Medium

lamé (textile), glass, cotton (textile)

Culture

Paris

Institution

Rijksmuseum

In the 1920s the silhouette became straighter and the natural waistline was ignored. The Russian-French designer Romain de Tirtoff (Erté) designed this evening gown for a fashion house in San Francisco. The fabric is woven of silver-plated copper thread and embroidered with coloured glass beads and pearls. The stylized Persian and Egyptian motifs were all the rage thanks to the discovery of Tutankhamun’s grave in 1922.

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